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Martina Johnson-Allen (born 1947) is an American artist and educator. American artist Martina Johnson-Allen Born ( 1947-08-04 ) August 4, 1947 (age 75) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Nationality American Education Pennsylvania State University, University of the Arts (Philadelphia), Known for Painte
George Marshall Cohen (August 4, 1919 – April 18, 1999) was an American painter and art professor. He was a member of the Chicago-based Monster Roster group of artists and taught art at Northwestern University . 20th-century American painter and academic George Marshall Cohen Born ( 1919-08-04 ) Aug
#3 Israel Painters and Sculptors Association
The Israel Painters and Sculptors Association was established in 1934 and has been associated with many painters and sculptors who worked in Israel. With the establishment of the State of Israel, the name of the association was changed to the "Association of Painters and Sculptors in Israel". In 200
Nikolai Sergeyev (August 4, 1908 – January 13, 1989) was a Russian painter. Russian painter This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's
#5 Jessicka
Jessicka Addams (born Jessica Fodera on October 23, 1975) is an American singer and visual artist. Best known by her stage name Jessicka , she was the frontwoman of Florida-based band Jack Off Jill and current front for the Los Angeles-based band Scarling. American singer Jessicka Jessicka in 2004 B
#6 Sidney Simon
Sidney A. Simon (May 21, 1917 – August 4, 1997) was an American painter, sculptor, muralist, art school co-founder, and American official war artist . American painter Sidney Simon The Four Seasons Fountain Sculpture located at One Worldwide Plaza , New York, New York Born ( 1917-05-21 ) May 21, 191
Mamata Banerjee ( Bengali : Mamata Bandyopadhyay, Bengali pronunciation: [mɔmot̪a bɔnd̪ːopad̪d̪ʱae̯] ; born 5 January 1955) is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 20 May 2011, the first woman to hold the office. Havi
David Morrison (4 August 1941 – 1 September 2012) was a Scottish author, editor and painter. For the American mathematician and physicist, see David R. Morrison (mathematician) . The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies . ( September 2011 )
Gladstone Eyre (11 June 1862 – 2 May 1933) was an Australian portrait artist and landscape painter around Sydney , New South Wales and Launceston, Tasmania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [1] Australian artist Gladstone Eyre Born William James Gladstone Eyre ( 1862-06-11 ) 11 June 1862 Me
#10 Stephan Sinding
Stephan Abel Sinding (4 August 1846 – 23 January 1922) was a Norwegian - Danish sculptor . He moved to Copenhagen in 1883 and had his breakthrough the same year. In 1890 he obtained Danish citizenship. In 1910 he settled in Paris where he lived and worked until his death in 1922. [1] Norwegian-Danis
#11 Sonya Clark
Sonya Clark (born 1967, Washington, D.C.) is an American artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Clark is a fiber artist known for using a variety of materials including human hair and combs to address race, culture, class, and history. [1] Her beaded headdress assemblages and braided wig series of the l
#12 Sunil Das
Sunil Das (4 August 1939 – 10 August 2015) was an Indian expressionist painter . [1] [2] He is known for the paintings in his Bull Series and his piece "Woman". [3] Indian artist (1939–2015) Sunil Das Born ( 1939-08-04 ) 4 August 1939 Calcutta , India Died 10 August 2015 (2015-08-10) (aged 76) Nat
#13 Simon Faithfull
Simon Faithfull (born 1966 in Ipsden , Oxfordshire ) is an English artist based in Berlin and London . His work has been widely exhibited in both international solo and group exhibitions, including Musee des Beaux Arts (Calais), Fabrica (Brighton,) FRAC Basse Normandie (France), The British Film Ins
#14 Felix Jenewein
Felix Jenewein (4 August 1857, Kutná Hora – 2 January 1905, Brno ) was a Czech painter, illustrator and lithographer . Many of his best known works have a somber tone. Czech painter, illustrator and lithographer This article needs additional citations for verification . ( December 2016 ) Felix Jenew
#15 Tudor Cataraga
Tudor Cataraga (born 4 August 1956 in Seliște – 27 December 2010) was a sculptor from the Republic of Moldova . [1] This article contains too many or overly lengthy quotations for an encyclopedic entry . ( July 2017 ) Tudor Cataraga Tudor Cataraga, Knight of the National Order of the Star of Romania
#16 Gennaro Giametta
Gennaro Giametta ( Frattamaggiore , August 4, 1867 - February 8, 1938) was an Italian painter. He worked under Pasquale Pontecorvo and Arnaldo De Lisio . He eventually moved to Buenos Aires in Argentina to work for many years. He then returned to Italy and entered politics. [1] Italian painter This
Guillermo Estrella Tolentino (July 24, 1890 – July 12, 1976) was a Filipino sculptor and professor of the University of the Philippines . He was designated as a National Artist of the Philippines for Sculpture in 1973, three years before his death. [3] In this Philippine name , the middle name or ma
#18 Mary Emily Eaton
Mary Emily Eaton (27 November 1873 – 4 August 1961) was an English botanical artist best known for illustrating Britton & Rose 's The Cactaceae , published between 1919 and 1923. [1] Plate XIX from The Cactaceae British botanical illustrator For other people named Mary Eaton, see Mary Eaton (disambi
#19 Irena Sedlecká
Irena Sedlecká (7 September 1928– 4 August 2020) [1] was a Czech sculptor [2] and Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors . This article needs additional citations for verification . ( October 2021 ) Czech sculptor (1928–2020) The statue of Freddie Mercury in Montreux . Beau Brummell statue
Andrea della Robbia (20 October 1435 – 4 August 1525) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor , especially in ceramics . Italian sculptor Andrea della Robbia by Andrea del Sarto Madonna with Child and Angels ( Louvre Museum ). Crucifixion , Sanctuary of La Verna [ it ] . San Agustin (ca 1490), on di
Christine Abrahams Gallery, first named Axiom, was a Melbourne gallery showing contemporary Australian art between 1980 and 2008. Australian Art Gallery
Castlemaine Art Museum is an Australian art gallery and museum in Castlemaine, Victoria in the Shire of Mount Alexander . It was founded in 1913. It is housed in a 1931 Art Deco building constructed for the purpose, heritage-listed by the National Trust. [1] Its collection concentrates on Australian
#3 Asia Society
The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia . It has several centers in the United States ( Manhattan , Washington, D.C. , Houston , Los Angeles , and San Francisco ) and around the world ( Hong Kong , Manila , Mumbai , Seoul , Shanghai , Melbourne ,
#4 Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art
The Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art , often abbreviated to MAC , is a contemporary art museum in Santurce, Puerto Rico . Museum in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico This article needs additional citations for verification . ( July 2010 ) Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art Established 1984 (
The House of the Black Madonna is a cubist building in the " Old Town " area of Prague , Czech Republic . It was designed by Josef Gočár . It is currently in use as the Czech Museum of Cubism and includes the Grand Café Orient restaurant on the first floor. [1] This article has multiple issues. Plea
#6 Gallery A
Gallery A was a mid-century Australian gallery that exhibited contemporary Australian art. It was established in 1959 at 60 Flinders Lane , Melbourne , and then relocated to 275 Toorak Road ., South Yarra . [1] A second Gallery A venue was opened and run concurrently at 21 Gipps Street, Paddington i
The Argentona Water Jug Museum ( Catalan : Museu del Càntir d'Argentona ), founded in 1975, is located in a building which opened on 20 July 2000. [1] The origins of the museum can be found in the Water Jug Festival, which is celebrated on 4 August every year since 1951, upholding a traditional cele
Realities Gallery was a Melbourne gallery which showed work of Australian art of the western and indigenous traditions, and Pacific and international art. It operated from 1971 to 1992. Australian art gallery in Melbourne, closed 1992
The Eduardo Sívori Museum ( Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori ) is a municipal art museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina . Municipal art museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori Established 1938 Location Infanta Isabel 555 Buenos Aires , Argentina Visitors 46,000/y
#10 National Portrait Gallery (United States)
The National Portrait Gallery is a historic art museum between 7th, 9th, F, and G Streets NW in Washington, D.C. , in the United States. Founded in 1962 and opened to the public in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution . Its collections focus on images of famous Americans. The museum is ho
The Muscarelle Museum of Art is a university museum affiliated with the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia . While the Museum only dates to 1983, the university art collection has been in existence since its first gift – a portrait of the physicist Robert Boyle – in 1732. Most early
#12 Midtown Y Photography Gallery
Midtown Y Photography Gallery was a pioneering nonprofit organisation in New York that offered photographers an opportunity to publicly exhibit their work. The Gallery ran from 1972 until 1996 directed in turn by photographers Larry Siegel, Sy Rubin and Michael Spano. [1] American nonprofit photogra
#13 Musée Rodin
The Musée Rodin ( English: Rodin Museum ) in Paris , France , is a museum that was opened in 1919, primarily dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin . It has two sites: the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds in central Paris, as well as just outside Paris at Rodin's old home, th
#14 Sursock Museum
The Sursock Museum ( Arabic : قصر سرسق ), which is officially known as the Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum , is a modern art and contemporary art museum in Beirut , Lebanon . Modern art and contemporary art museum in Beirut, Lebanon The Sursock Museum in Beirut
#1 Oliver P. Morton (monument)
Oliver P. Morton and Reliefs is a public artwork by Austrian artist Rudolph Schwarz , located on the east side of the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis , Indiana , at the intersection of North Capitol Avenue and West Market Street. Oliver P. Morton and Reliefs Artist Rudolph Schwarz Year 1907 ( 1
#2 The Port of Boulogne by Moonlight
The Port of Boulogne by Moonlight or Moonlight over the Port of Boulogne (French - Le Clair de lune sur le port de Boulogne ) is an 1868 work by Édouard Manet . The work is now in the Musée d'Orsay . [1] Painting by Édouard Manet The Port of Boulogne by Moonlight Artist Édouard Manet Year 1868 Mediu
Campbell's Soup Cans [1] (sometimes referred to as 32 Campbell's Soup Cans ) [2] is a work of art produced between November 1961 and March or April 1962 [3] by American artist Andy Warhol . It consists of thirty-two canvases, each measuring 20 inches (51 cm) in height × 16 inches (41 cm) in widt
Sarah T. Bolton is a public artwork by American artist Emma Sangernebo (1877–1969). [1] It is located on the second floor of the rotunda in the Indiana State House , Indianapolis , Indiana , United States. It is a bronze sculptural relief of Indiana poet Sarah Tittle Bolton , née Barrett (December 1
The Bellelli Family , also known as Family Portrait , is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar Degas (1834–1917), painted c. 1858–1867, and housed in the Musée d'Orsay . A masterwork of Degas' youth, the painting is a portrait of his aunt, her husband, and their two young daughters. Painting by Edgar D
#6 Portrait of Petronella Buys
Portrait of Petronella Buys (1610–1670) is a 1635 portrait painting painted by Rembrandt . It shows a young woman with a very large and impressive millstone collar . It is in a private collection. [1] Portrait of Petronella Buys Portrait of Petronella Buys (1605–1670) Year 1635 Medium oil paint , oa
#7 Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in London, England, was the first stage of a three-part project initiated in November 1786 by engraver and publisher John Boydell in an effort to foster a school of British history painting . In addition to the establishment of the gallery, Boydell planned to produce
#8 Black Lives Matter street mural (Salt Lake City)
In August 2020, eight artists painted a Black Lives Matter street mural in Salt Lake City 's Washington Square Park , outside the Salt Lake City and County Building , in the U.S. state of Utah . The city had commissioned the painting with a contest "to support and memorialize the national movement t
Many valuable paintings have been stolen . The paintings listed are from masters of Western art which are valued in millions of U.S. dollars . See also: List of most expensive paintings
#10 The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers
The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers is a c. 1672–75 oil on canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jan de Baen , now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam . [1] It shows the dead and mutilated bodies of the brothers Johan and Cornelis de Witt hanging upside down on the Groene Zoodje , the place of
Charles Theodore Seltman PhD (4 August 1886 – 28 June 1957) was an English art historian and writer particularly in the area of numismatics . British historian Charles Seltman Born Charles Theodore Seltman 4 August 1886 ( 1886-08-04 ) Paddington, London, England Died 28 June 1957 ( 1957-06-29 )
Jean José Marchand (4 August 1920 – 8 March 2011) was a French critic of art, cinema and literature. From the late 1960s he made many documentary TV films of writers, philosophers and artists. Jean José Marchand Marchand in 1954 Born ( 1920-08-04 ) 4 August 1920 Paris , France Died 8 March 2011 (201
#3 Sandu Tudor
Sandu Tudor ( Romanian pronunciation: [ˈsandu ˈtudor] ; born Alexandru Al. Teodorescu , known in church records as Brother Agathon , later Daniil Teodorescu , Daniil Sandu Tudor , Daniil de la Rarău ; December 22 or December 24, 1896 – November 17, 1962) was a Romanian poet, journalist, theologian
John Alexander Pope (4 August 1906 – 18 September 1982) was a prominent scholar of Asian art, particularly Chinese and Japanese blue-and-white ceramics. He spent most of his career at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington. [1] [2] [3] John Alexander Pope American art historian Pope was born in Detr
Manuel Bartolomé Cossío (22 February 1857 – 2 September 1935) was a Spanish art historian and Krausist teacher. Born in Haro , La Rioja, he entered the Institución Libre de Enseñanza , where he was godson and favourite pupil of Francisco Giner de los Ríos as well as his inseparable companion and suc
#6 Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet
Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet MP KT , of Pollok FRSE DCL LLD (8 March 1818 – 15 January 1878), was a Scottish historical writer, art historian and politician . 19th-century Scottish writer and politician Sir William Stirling-Maxwell Bt MP KT FRSE DCL Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, c. 18
Benoy K. Behl is an Indian documentary filmmaker, [1] art historian and photographer known for his work in documenting the art heritage of India and Asia. [2] [3] He has taken more than 50,000 photographs of Asian monuments and has produced more than 140 documentaries which are regularly screened at
#8 Knut Berg
Knut Berg (4 August 1925 – 29 November 2007) was a Norwegian art historian and museologist. [1] Norwegian art historian and museologist Knut Berg Born ( 1925-08-04 ) 4 August 1925 Oslo , Norway Died 29 November 2007 (2007-11-29) (aged 82) Oslo , Norway Nationality Norwegian Alma mater University
Jacob Baal-Teshuva (born 1929) is an Israeli-American author, journalist, art critic, appraiser, and curator. Author and art critic, 1929-2022 He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the New York University . Beginning his career as a free-lance journalist at the United Nations , his
#10 Walter Pater
Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), revised as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and P
#11 Helen Ogilvie
Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie (4 May 1902, in Corowa – 1 August 1993, in Melbourne ) was a twentieth-century Australian artist and gallery director, cartoonist, painter, printmaker and craftworker, best known for her early linocuts and woodcuts, and her later oil paintings of vernacular colonial buildings
#1 Cambrai Memorial to the Missing
The Cambrai Memorial to the Missing (sometimes referred to as the Louverval Memorial ) [1] is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) memorial for the missing soldiers of World War I who fought in the Battle of Cambrai on the Western Front . [2] Memorial in Cambrai Cambrai Memorial Commonwealth
#2 Monument to the King's Liverpool Regiment
The monument to the King's Liverpool Regiment is a war memorial in St John's Gardens in the city centre of Liverpool , England. The memorial commemorates those members of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) who lost their lives on campaign in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880), the Third Anglo-Burm
Tommy is a statue of a First World War soldier by artist Ray Lonsdale , displayed close to Seaham war memorial, on Terrace Green by the seafront in Seaham , County Durham , in North East England . 2014 sculpture by Ray Lonsdale Tommy statue in Seaham The corten steel statue weighs 1.2 tonnes (1.2 lo
Spectra is the name of a series of art installations by Ryoji Ikeda which use intense white light as a sculptural material. [1] The most recent presentation of spectra was in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia for four days ending 24 June, 2018 to mark the winter solstice, and as an installation piece at t
#5 Civil Service Rifles War Memorial
The Civil Service Rifles War Memorial is a First World War memorial located on the riverside terrace at Somerset House in central London, England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled in 1924, the memorial commemorates the 1,240 members of the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles regiment
#6 Statue of Christopher Columbus (Lima)
A 10-feet-high statue of Christopher Columbus is located in Alameda de Acho , Lima , Peru. It was erected on 4 August 1860 by Spanish sculptor Paz-Soldán. The statue was originally sited on the Avenida 9 de Diciembre (Paseo Colón), but by the 1940s it had been moved to its current location. [1] It u
The Taubenbrunnen is a fountain sculpture designed by Ewald Mataré and erected in 1953 in the Altstadt-Nord district of Cologne, situated directly in front of the west side of the Cologne Cathedral (cf. Domplatte [ de ] ). Fountain in Cologne
The Lady of Elx or Lady of Elche (in Spanish , Dama de Elche in Valencian , Dama d'Elx ) is a limestone [1] bust that was discovered in 1897, at La Alcudia , an archaeological site on a private estate two kilometers south of Elche , Spain . It is currently exhibited in the National Archaeological Mu
The Burnham Pavilions were public sculptures by Zaha Hadid and Ben van Berkel in Millennium Park , which were located in the Loop community area of Chicago , Illinois . Both pavilions were located in the Chase Promenade South. Their purpose was to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Daniel Burnham
#10 Memorial to RAF aircrew in Dębina Zakrzowska
The memorial to the RAF aircrew located in the hamlet of Dębina Zakrzowska , Wojnicz Commune in southern Poland , marks the spot where the British, Canadian and Australian airmen perished on the night of 4–5 August 1944, when their Halifax bomber , from No. 148 Squadron of the RAF , was shot down by
#11 List of monuments and memorials removed following the Russian invasion of Ukraine
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine [1] a number of Soviet-era monuments and memorials associated, destroyed or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced. This occurred mainly in former Eastern Bloc countries , but also in several other countries. [2] The Bronze Soldier of Tallin
#12 Brierley Hill War Memorial
Brierley Hill War Memorial is a war memorial in Brierley Hill , [lower-alpha 1] Dudley, England. War memorial in Dudley, England Brierley Hill War Memorial The memorial, decorated with poppies for the 100th anniversary of its unveiling Alternative names Brierley Hill Town Memorial General informatio
#13 Bell Memorial
The Bell Memorial (also known as the Bell Monument or Telephone Monument ) is a memorial designed by Walter Seymour Allward to commemorate the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell at the Bell Homestead National Historic Site , in Brantford, Ontario , Canada. Bell Memorial City of Bran
#14 Fountain of Neptune, Florence
The Fountain of Neptune in Florence , Italy , ( Italian : Fontana del Nettuno ) is situated in the Piazza della Signoria (Signoria square), in front of the Palazzo Vecchio . The fountain was commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1559 to celebrate the marriage of Francesco de' Medici I to Grand Duch
#15 Confederate Monument in Owensboro, Ky.
The Confederate Monument in Owensboro, Ky., was a bronze sculpture atop a granite pedestal, located at the southwest corner of the Daviess County Courthouse lawn, at the intersection of Third and Frederica Streets, in Owensboro, Kentucky . [2] Nearly 122 years after the monument was dedicated in Sep
#16 Statue of Frederick Douglass (Rochester, New York)
A statue of Frederick Douglass sculpted by Sidney W. Edwards , sometimes called the Frederick Douglass Monument , [1] was installed in Rochester, New York in 1899 [2] after it was commissioned by the African-American activist John W. Thompson . [2] [3] According to Visualising Slavery: Art Across th
#17 List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests
During the civil unrest [1] that followed the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, a number of monuments and memorials associated with racial injustice were vandalized, destroyed or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced. This occurred mainly in the United States , but also in several
The Namantar Shahid Smarak (English: Name Change Martyrdom Memorial) is a large memorial sculpture dedicated to those who died in the Namantar Andolan . [1] The Namantar Andolan was a 1978 to 1994 movement in India by Dalits (formerly known as Untouchables ) who wanted to rename a university in hono
The statue of Edward Colston is a bronze statue of Bristol -born merchant and trans-Atlantic slave trader , Edward Colston (1636–1721). It was created in 1895 by the Irish sculptor John Cassidy and was formerly erected on a plinth of Portland stone in a public park known as "The Centre" , until it w